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Transilvania - Leggi e statuti - Rakoczi II, Georgy
Approbatae Constitutiones - De rebus religionis et sententiae, 1653
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€ 2.800 - 3.000
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€ 7.020
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Paper code in 4°, 370 x 250 mm., datable to 1653 (March 15), composed of pp.331 + (56) with wide margins, with long and detailed Alphabetical Index of topics at the end of the volume, collection of laws and statutes divided into five parts and 103 chapters, 18th century half leather and cardboard binding, peeling and defects, red edges, title on the spine.
Specialist Notes
The Constitutiones Approbatae are a collection of decrees and legal practices codified in the 17th century and published in 1653 under the rule of Prince Gyorgy Rakoczi II (1648-1660). Rare and important anonymous manuscript in beautiful, perfectly legible handwriting of the Constitution of the Principality of Transylvania, a region that returned under Hapsburg rule following the Turkish defeat in the Battle of Vienna in 1683.
They stipulated, among other things, that the right of Jews to settle was limited to the city of Alba Iulia, and only as peasants, without civil rights and with the prohibition of buying property. They appeared in print in Romanian in 1653: Rákóczi G., Approbatae Constitutiones, Varadini, apud Kertesz, 1653.
Topics covered include: Religious issues; The state of Princes and Governors; Formula of the oath of Princes; Constitutions approved by the annexed territories of the Kingdom of Hungary [seven counties]; Princess Catherine; Of the Sicleri; Of gold, silver and other coins; Of the salt mines; Punishments of wrongdoers; Of judicial proceedings; On mortgages; State and condition of slaves etc.
They stipulated, among other things, that the right of Jews to settle was limited to the city of Alba Iulia, and only as peasants, without civil rights and with the prohibition of buying property. They appeared in print in Romanian in 1653: Rákóczi G., Approbatae Constitutiones, Varadini, apud Kertesz, 1653.
Topics covered include: Religious issues; The state of Princes and Governors; Formula of the oath of Princes; Constitutions approved by the annexed territories of the Kingdom of Hungary [seven counties]; Princess Catherine; Of the Sicleri; Of gold, silver and other coins; Of the salt mines; Punishments of wrongdoers; Of judicial proceedings; On mortgages; State and condition of slaves etc.
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